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GEORGE FITZMAURICE PRODUCTION OPENS AT ORPHEUM TODAY 1 1 1 1 A 90 MILE AN HOUR ROMANCE FILM VERSION IS VIVID OF ON THE DOOR DEPTH-FILMS WILL BE SHOWN TO RACE AT PARAMOUNT NOVEL PAJAMA VOGUE SWEEPS SCREEN COLONY I CVkWArtSSV V- Thrilling Murder Production Coming i Who killed 'Anthony Benson? the absorbing question that is occupying no little attention at the studio at present The answer should be forthcoming soon Philo a Vance is working on it a The purchase of the talking pic-way of saying that Benson i ture rights to the European stage Murder third success General "and the an-picturization from Van nouncement that the film is to be murder mystery series is to work! produced as an important feature PARAMOUNT T0 1 i appy Days Also Talk Covers Whole of Theatre -s LOS ANGELES Feb (UP -The new grandeur film which giyes depth to motion pictures Will have its1 premiere here February 28 Harold Franklin manager of Fox West Coast theatres announced today i Sli I Development of the film represents cost of $4000000) and five work by motion picture laboratory experts Franklin said The new type film Is said to! be twice as wide as that now in use giving a picture covering the entire proscenium of the theatre whilo providing a stereoscopic effect I Franklin hailed perfection of the grandeur film as the third great epoch in the history of motion pictures their discovery and development of sound being the first two The picture also a talkie will be J- for the 1930-31 season were made public today by Schulberg general manager of west coast production for Paramount The word followed closely on the heels of the arrival in Hollywood this week of Lajos Zilahy noted Hungarian playwright who wrote The Hungarian author was accompanied from New York by Lo-thar Mendes who will direct the fiimization of Mendes has been vacationing to the east following the release of his current picture Marriage Zilahy was signed to work on the adaptation of his play by Schulberg when the latter was abroad last year On his completion of the adaptation Zilahy plans to return to Europe where he will be married The author has written nine successful plays and five novels and had 100 published poems to his credit Among his stage hits are The Sun Is Musical and His books were Is Adrift in the and Great Contract Presented To Sinister Actor Richard Arlen and Mary Brian in a scene from the Paramount Picture Up i Martha Junior ANNUAL VALENTINE I 1 i WEDNESDAY i NIGHT Considered one of the most sen sational shootings in crime history this vivid tragedy of sacrifice and love is being seen and heard on the Orpheum Theatre screen for three days starting today Locked directed by George Fitzmaur-lce and adapted from Channing famous stage success Sign on the features an all-star cast headed by Rod LaRocque Barbara Stanwyck William Boyd and Betty Bronson A riotious Lloyd Hamilton comedy entitled provides no end of laughs to the Tuesday Wednesday Thursday program which also Includes a special novelty subject commemorating birthday screen vaudeville acts and the latest news events to sound Bursting their way through the door of the Frank Devereaux suite at the Bellevue hotel police today found the youth dying from a shot to the chest Locked to the room with him was a woman who refused to reveal her name but who confessed to the shooting Devereaux son of the wealthy steel magnate of New York City is not expected to live throughout the-night The woman a striking beauty told police she shot Devereaux after he had locked the door on her and attempted to make love to her Further mystery was brought into the case when the pretty assailant broke down under questioning and admitted that she had visited the young apartment for the purpose of saving another honor self fascinating For Arlen Is cast as a dare-devil automobile race driver The remarkable camera shots and the zooming of the speed cars as they roar over the ground are as realistic and nerve-tingling as anything yet brought to the audible screen As a speed demon Arlen is well-nigh perfect As to this popular young star is thoroughly at home to a role that suits his talents to the proverbial Mary Brian portrays the beautiful daughter of a leading citizen she is charming to look at and delightful to listen to Carrying out the policy of two bit pictures each week will only play for three days ending Friday night The Lone Star which has been setting a new pace at the Paramount this week will have its final showing at that house to- night i i Richard Arlen who first came into screen prominence as the aviator hero of and who subsequently played prominent roles in many pictures makes his first appearance as a full-fledged star to exciting romantic melodrama which at the Paramount theatre tomorrow In support of Arlen are Mary Brian who recently scored so favorably to "The and the "Marriage and four well-known character actors Tully Marshall Charles Selon Sam Hardy and Francis McDonald Here is a 'picture packed with thrills laughs? romance and all those elements that go to make up a first rate entertainment The action is fast and always absorbingly interesting building up through a series of exciting sequences to a powerful and satisfactory climax The background is in it- William Powell of course is again to his now famous characterization Philo Vance dilettante-detective Eugene Pallette is Sergenat Heath Calvert District Attorney Markham The rest of the cast i3 entirely different from the players to and murders It includes Natalie Moorhead blonde stage beauty William Boyd who first played the role of Sergeant Quirk in the Broadway stage play Price May Beatty veteran English character actress Mischa Auer last seen to 'The Paul Lukas the heavy of Way to and and Richard Tucper well-known portrayer of character roles another great melodrama and should be even a bigger success than the two previous Van Dine stories 4- Laugh Hit Picture Coming To Ogden Can you imagine Harry Green in a Zane Grey picture? You have to imagine it long for you'll see him in Richard Arlen's new starring picture Light of Western Dick and Mary Brian and Harry and Fred Kohler and others are now at work in it and word comes that the rushes are showing up as unusually good It will be first Zane Grey subject with full dialogue Harry Green as a comedy peddler is certain to be the laugh hit of the picture Hundreds of Lights Illuminate Setting Fifteen hundred incandescent lights blazing beneath a tier of wide steps and making them appear to be a mass of flaming color add to the spectacle of one of the brief interludes to Intimate all-star film frelic "Paramount on the number being that called Girls On Parade' The setting a vast one which filled an entire sound stage at the Paramount studios to Hollywood was further embellished by eight giant silver pillars also lighted from within and constructed of metal- fashioned in modernistic de sign i Girls On features the dancing of Mitzi Mayfair fifteen-year-old sensation and the voice of Virginia Bruce Paramount contract player Scores of girls are featured with Miss Bruce' anc Mitzi to this number which was filmed in Technicolor at the Film Star Engaged Cameramen Go High Into Air On Girders s' a V' 1 Perhaps the most amusing Hollywood mode embraced by the feminine film stars is that of the pajama vogue Travis Banton- who grooms the ctars for Paramount productions states that Hollyfood hostesses are involved in heated competition over unusual and clever' pajama costumes Since only the hostess may wear pajamas a sudden flood of informal dinner and contract bridge parties has overwhelmed the stars social calendars PAJAMAS FOR TEA Afternoon tea Banton points out offers an excellent opportunity for the hostess to appear in droll pajama costumes Kay Francis won the plaudits of her guests recently at a tea when she appeared in a hostess costume that deftly suggested pajamas A fresh chiffon slip terminates in a pleated and divided chiffon skirt A long robe of chartreuse velvet completes the costume TROUSERS IN STYLE Ruth Chatterton prefers trousered modes that flare into folds of fullness about the ankles The upper part of her pajama suits are usually short and jaunty Plain red and flowered crepe fashion one of her most successful outfits The double-breasted Jacket is created in the flowered crepe and the trousers of plain red but circular godets below the knee repeat the flowered motif Nancy Carroll entertained In a white satin -and velvet creation that was startling In its simplicity Satin fashioned the blouse and trousers and velvet the circular hemmed robe Pearls were the on-oly accessory used by the Paramount star Cast Complete For Van' Dine Tale The victim four detectives five suspects a district attorney a Japanese valet and a score of lesser characters participate in Benson Murder to complete the triology of Van Dine stories done into a talking film feature by Paramount at its Hollywood stu- dl William Powell again is Philo Vance amateur detective Eugene Pallette plays Sergeaift Heath and Calvert is District Attorney John F-X Markham Others are Natalie Moorhead of stage fame as Fanny Del Roy William Boyd who created the role of Sergeant Quirk in Price on the New York stage as a high-class racketeer May Beatty late of the English stage as Mrs Banning Mischa Auer a grandson of Leopold Auer famous violinist as Alfred' valet Paul Lukas 'as Adolph Mohler Richard Tucker as the victim of the piece Anthony Benson and Otto Yama-oka as the valet The picture is being directed by Frank Tuttle Unit Making New Aerial Picture Seven men are bringing the spirit of motion picture air epic to ad-venture-drama of the young airmen In the World war Charles Rogers who played an important featured role in is the star of William Wellman is making Richard Johnston who acted as assistant director on the air epic is the jmit business manager on the Rogers' stellar vehicle while Charles Barton second assistant director on is the present assistant director under Wellman Two of the flyers in slip into the cockpits of the planes used in Lieut Robinson- who piloted one of the camera-ships to the former film resumes his same position while Dick Grace stunt flying ace in is aiding to novel aerial thrills for Young Eagles" PUBLIC INVITED Stanley Fields the man who traded laughter for hate has been given a long-term contract by Paramount as a result of his performance to William first) starring picture "Street of Last February Fields arrived to Hollywood with a reputation as a vaudeville comedian Today he is recognized as one of the talking leading menaces He made his audible screen debut to Norma York to which he played a gunman He was next cast as a bad man in A1 Jol Before coming to Hollywood he was a member of the vaudeville team of Stanley Fields and Frank Fay for eight years Preceding that he was a member of Broadway musical comedies among them Red "The Talk of New Miles from Boston and "The Yankee i Talker Recorded At 100 Miles An Hour Stage Actress Gets I Van' Dine Film Role i Natalie Moorhead's golden blonde beauty is to be seen in Benson Murdet in which Para mount will present William Eowell as Philo Vance Miss Moorhead well known as a stage actress in addition to her work to pictures recently has played in Green and Song of and recently completed a stage engagement with the Henry Duffy players to Her The proceeds of thi3 dance for the support of the Hospital Charity Bed Admission One Dollar Per Persoi I Huge Set Built To Record Color Film A setting so huge that it has to be divided into sections for close-up and medium shots was built for the filming of all-Techni-color song romance "The Vagabond It is the palace garden setting which is 250 feet long by seventy-five feet wide It occupies the entire interior of one of the largest of the new sound stages Long shots were made took in the entire setting Two hundred persons were used to these scenes Then closeups and medium shots depicting action with Dennis King the star and smaller groups of principals were started Because of the army of players and workers on the set it was found necessary to curtain off the sections where the close and medium action was being filmed I Ocean Phone Poles Solve Film Problem Cameramen became aerialists for the filming of the skyscraper sequences to George new Paramount starring picture Love Many of the early scenes to the produtclon were filmed from the upper levels of New newest projected office buildings whree no footing more secure than- narrow steel girders hundreds of feet above the ground was Bancroft plays the part of a steel construction engineer 4n Love which 13 being directed by Rowland Lee from Zoe play My Waldemar Young and Herman Manklewicz wrote the screen play Mary Astor has the leading feminine role 4 Writer Signs New Paramount Contract Percy Heath screen author has signed a new contract with Paramount Heath recently has collaborated with George Marion Jr in the extravaganza Go and the story for Charles new starring vehicle in A PUBL1X THEATRE UaWU' Talking motion pictures now can be made at 100 miles an hour it was successfully demonstrated when automobile racing scenes for Paramount picture starring Richard Arlen were filmed on the dirst track at Riverside Calif The speed at which the action was photographed was limited only hy the size of the speedway Automatically-operated cameras and recording apparatus were mounted on specially-designed fixatures attached to the front of the racing cars piloted by Arlen anc Francis McDonald his opponent in a match race I lomorrow The Fastest Show Ever to Play Ogden! 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Is Featured In Paramount Reels A special two-reel feature showing vivid scenes of ski ing in the Alps will be shown to ad dition to the regular program at the Paramount theatre on Wednes day Thursday and Friday i 1 production is a special one imported here for the ski tournament to be held said Ross Glasmann manager of the Paramount theatre today who wish to see how real skiing is done will enjoy this Maude Fulton Joins Staff Maude Fulton author and playwright has joined the writing staff of the Paramount studios in Hollywood according to an announcement from the company Miss Fulton best known for her plays "The and "The Humming to which she starred on the stage recently completed several months in the Fox studio scenario department Her first assignment will be the adaptation of a Clara Bow vehicle as yet unannounced or untitled Sea-going telephone poles floating on end on the open sea solved for Paramount technicians the problem of recording water scenes to Nancy first starring picture Paradise Several of the more important scenes take place on the deck of a yacht involving action between Miss Carroll and Richard Arlen her leading man It was obvious that the microphone should be on the boat above the players land also that huge sound truck a complete recording laboratory on wheels should remain ashore The experts solved the problem by mounting short poles on floating rafts tying Them together to form a string that stretched from shore to far at sea The wires that carried Miss and voices as they spoke their lines were stretched between these floating poles and perfect results were obtained I Location Trips Aid Charitable Bodies a Motion picture companies secure large southern California estates as film location sites through an arrangement with the Assistance league a charitable organization The location rental goes to one of the welfare causes aided by the league i Paramount obtained the famous Busch gardens in Pasadena as a site for sequences of the Gary new starring vehicle Civil war battle scenes were filmed there The rental proceeds were turned over to disabled war veterans 1 1 I he Man You'd Love to Love "SMALLEST ADS BUT BIGGEST Adults 25c Any Seat Any Time' Marriage of Alice Day motion picture actress and Jack Cohen broker will take place to April or May after five years of courtship her mother Mrs Irene Day has revealed -M Two Players Given Long Term Contract Two players recently signed to a long-term contract 'by Paramount axe' playing to George new picture Love Brutes" They are Mary Astor and Stanley Fields You will remember Mary Astor as the ingenue to Rough but be wrong for since then she has developed into one of the most interesting sophisticated young omen to pictures This is her first talking picture Stanley Fields is the burly gent who played Dorgan the Detroit bootlegger in of His role with Bancroft was the result and the contract came after his first few work in this second picture He used to headline in vaudeville as Frank partner Before that he was a prize-fighter which accounts for the shape of his nose now regarded as a physical asset Benny Leonard gave it to him A third new contract player is Stuart Erwin the comic valentine (he was born on February 14) who played Axel in He has just gone to the Long Island studio for a part in Helen Nan McGrew" after playing Pudge the chief comedy role in Buddy new picture Full Skirts Latest Warm Weather Idea The effects of the new mode according to Paramount stylists are for cool calm and dignified results An example of the cooling style is worn by Lillian Roth for a number in the film frolic on to which she croons a song with Charles Rogers The frock is fashioned to white organdie accented with gardenias that flaunt freshly green leaves over the surface of a long and very full skirt 4 Ruffles 150 Yards Long Trim Frock One hundred and fifty yards of ruffling trim a black souffle frock worn by Evelyn Brent to to which Paramount co-stars her with Clive Brook The ruffles form a cape around the edge of the decolletage tiny sleeves and a myriad of irregular detail on the skirt l-yceuki 1 Today and Tomorrow All Talking Mystery Thriller Green Murder Also Comedy and Vitaphone Acts Open 12:45 Noon Wfc In A yy liiiiie An Hour Racing Romance tH Last Times Today LOST wsmmm -m" with marV bman lne Murrvi in Duke of Screen Vaudeville Acts Latest News Events 1 Clair Anderson at the Organ 1 BARGAIN 25c TUI 2 pm 33c TUI 6 Peter Great Story Last Times Tonite Zane Grey's First All-Talking Picture DanceTonigtif IBoIPoOo 31MSS District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Brother John Rowe will make his official visit to Of den lodge THIS EVENING and I urge you to he in attendance THOMAS Exalted Ruler Ray Band Ladies 15c Gentlemen 25c PLUS Special BIRTHDAY Novelty Screen Vaundeville Acts and Latest Sound News l-' POPULATION 50000 DANCERS cxetl-- Attend Bargain Matinees-25c until 2:00 35c until 6:00 I.